EveryChild Moldova launches fund-raising campaign to re-organize boarding school from Cahul

EveryChild Moldova, jointly with the Social Protection Ministry, launches a new fund-raising titled “Your make the future”. The money will be used to re-organize the boarding school from Cahul town, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to the Minister Galina Balmos, the re-organization of that boarding school is a model to be applied to carry out the Governmental Strategy of reorganizing the residential system and reducing the number of children in boarding schools by 50% by 2012. “The fact that in Cahul, for the first time in the country, they managed to separate the educational process from the social process in a boarding school is an indicator motivating and encouraging the continuation of the reform. In addition to raising funds, the campaign pursues to inform and mobilize society to back the children's rights to grow in a family milieu, safe and protecting, says Stela Grigoras, EveryChild Moldova's president. The re-organization of the Cahul boarding school was launched in 2007 and pursues to transform the school into a complex of social services based on growing the child in a milieu as close to the family as possible. The question is about a temporary lodging center of 5 family modules to host children up to 16, orphan or temporarily without children, and about eight “social apartments” for the orphans finishing the school. From foreign donors' money, now EveryChild supports the process of revamping the study rooms of the lodging center, Stela Grigoras says. EveryChild, jointly with the school administration, with the Education Direction and Social Assistance Direction from Cahul, deals with integrating the children from boarding schools into the schools from the community and into their biological or extended families. As from September 1, all those 103 children go to the schools in the town. Earlier, EveryChild Moldova, jointly with the Ministry, staged other two fund-raisers titled “Yout Make the Future”. The money was used to buy a house for orphan children from Sarata Galben village of Hancesti district, after they lost their parents in a fire. They also organized a summer camp for some 140 people: parental assistants, social assistants, lodged and biological children from five Moldovan localities. The reform of the residential system was launched in 2007 after the Government adopted the respective Strategy and Action Plan.